mighty fine trivia by James Callan

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Every weekday, I’ll send you one trivia question. Don’t worry, you get the answer, too — but in the next email, along with a brand new question. It’s a cycle.

Oh gosh yes please send me a trivia question every weekday.

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You might learn something new. You might find out how much you already know. You might get something to think about.

I might include more stuff in a given newsletter — bonus questions, facts, factoids, cactoids, links, etc. — but I won’t send email to this list more often than once a day. And I try to keep ’em short.

And spam? Ugh. I won’t send it to you, and I won’t give your email address to anyone else to send it, either.

The guillotine. A tricoteuse would hang out in the Place de la Révolution during the Reign of Terror and knit while watching heads roll. (Now there’s an app for that.) Madame Defarge is a famous example, but encoding messages in their knitting is not a requirement.

Natalie Toro as Madame DeFarge, with company, in A Tale of Two Cities. (photo by Carol Rosegg)

The United States Olympic Committee. The USOC claimed that the “Ravelympics” was “disrespectful to our country’s finest athletes.” After a flurry of protests, the USOC has apologized and withdrawn their complaint.